Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-25
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
4 BRIDGE IN ROCHE sTER BL,WN
DOWN, WITH LOSS OF LIFE.
Two Trains Overturned BY Billiards Is
the West.

A high wind from the south swent 49,.
the Genesee River channel at Rochester, =.
Friday Itcaughttwo large polss which carrv
\ telegraph wires across the Court street bridgs
and when they fell they carried two snan,
of the bridge down with them. Persons
in an Office on the bank OF the r.ive,. so,v s.,
ME Graham go down with the wreck inf,
the food. The river was high. and tha
torrent carried her rap.dy away, tn
last they saw OF her she was nass;na
beneath the canal ,ueduct. Otbess
persons saw man carried away
with the bridge. He was seen going dow,
the river, nsaking frantic but uns .lccessf,,I
efforts to catch q plank floating near him
Three other employees of w S. KinhalI a.
Co. were missing. aud there were fears that
they too were swept down the river.
In Ieayer Col on the same day, the wind
blew at the rate OF sixty miles al, hour. and
many buildings were unroofed, snoxestaclzs
chinineys, and telegraph and telephone poles
leveled with the ground, AMI plate.glass
windows broken
On tire Denver and Rio Grande RAILWAY
four miles north Of Colorado Springs tie
north bound ( 0lt Lake express, CONSISTING Of
two sleeping cars, two passeng r. coaches
aud baggage ald mail car, was blown from
the track at three O'clock A. M, and the mai
Ear AMI its contents were destroyed by fire
Had the accident happened while the train
vas on Q q gh embanklnent a short distance
further on, the loss of life would have been
great Fortunately no one was iniu ed "a
freight train OF twenty cars on side track
wa ting for the express to pass was also de-
rallied by the wind, and the cars were badly
damaged.
The pa senger train Of thres coaches which
left Denver on the Denver and South Park
Road for Morrison, at eight o'clock, was
lifted from the track by terrific blast and
hurle down an embankment twelve miles
from the city. One passenger had
his leg broken, and Others were
bruised Near Como, on the same
road, the Leadville express was blown over
bridge and nearly all of the passengers and
train men were severely injured and the
coaches badly wrecked. All incoming trains
on tho various roads were from five to ten
hours late on account OF the storm
The Z, worst storm Of the white: has been
prevailing Throughout the Northwest tpday
The telegraph service west Of Omaha
and st. Paul was completely cut off
At Minneapolis and st. Paul nearly all
trains on the lines north, west and sonth of
Minneapolis were abandoned. The Northern
kota lines were entirely blocked. Nearly all
the street railway lines In st. Paul and Min
nea. oils were blocked.
In Chicago the streets and sidewalks In
the northern part OF the town were invisi-
bic, and the cellars were filed with water
AAS !" apCi IL LIS yaTuS Oh Sonic houses was
several feet dec. A severe thunder and
lightning storm prevailed
A Bloomington I'LL special saws that
storm remarkable for that section ragged,
lasting three hours. The electrical disturb
ance was great, the lightning being terrific
It IA ned heavily for two hours. Heavy hail
was reported from the northern part Of the
county. The storm was felt all over central
illinois. 1t had rained almost inces antly
fer week. The streams were all high.
In New York city and vicinity one Of the
heaviest storms of the winter raged for many
hours. 1t was accompanied by thunder and
l2htnlng an unusual occurrence at
this season. Lightning struck the
biggest warehouse oil the Ameris
ean Docs and Trust Company, at
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, anu it caught
fire. The building on fire was numbered
four IN the list of sixteen cotton warehouses
extending along $50 feet-of bnlkhead. The
flames were communicated to warehouses
Il, II, l3, 5, and 0, and they were all de-
stroy, together with $4,000 bales of cotton,
value az 900 The total loss IS estimated
at S350,000
ts